Cecil Kennedy (1905 - 1997) - English painter, master of still life, was born February 4, 1905 in Leyton, in a large Victorian family of artists. Kennedy is one of the most famous representatives of the English modern school.

From 1950 to 1970, Kennedy's paintings were regularly exhibited at the London Society fine arts(Fine Art Society). The artist was twice awarded at the Paris Salon: in 1956 with a silver medal and in 1970 with a gold medal. Among the fans of Cecil Kennedy's work there were many famous and influential people: the Duke of Windsor, Lord Thompson, the Astor family. “When I see the paintings of Cecil Kennedy, I smell the flowers and hear the hum of the bees,” Queen Mary said of the artist’s work.

Cecil Kennedy is by far the finest British flower still life painter of the twentieth century. In his work, he often combined modern hybrid exotic flowers with traditional English flowers and herbs, with plants that were depicted on his canvases by the old masters.

He knew a lot about flowers, and his use white color in many still lifes reflects the trends of gardening of the XX century. Paintings by Cecil Kennedy can be found all over the world - in royal, corporate and private collections.

YOU CAN CHOOSE THE STILL LIFE YOU LIKE.

Anne-François-Louis Janmot

(French, 1814-1892)

PortraitureReligious from auctions and museums

"Flower of the Fields" (Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon)

Anne-Francois-Louis Yanmote (May 21, 1814 - June 1, 1892) was French artist and a poet when the first Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte appeared in France.
Janmot has been seen as a transitional figure between Romanticism and Symbolism, a prototype of the French part of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; his work was admired by Pouvy de Chavannes, Odilon Redon and Maurice Denis.

In the paintings of Louis Janmot, Ingres' impeccable finish was combined with mysticism, which has parallels in the work of his Nazirite and Pre-Raphaelite contemporaries.
The Pre-Raphaelites drew inspiration from the works of Perugino, Fra Angelico, Giovanni Bellini and other Florentine artists of the era. early renaissance who worked "before Raphael" and Michelangelo. They were not satisfied with the conventions Victorian era, academic traditions and blind imitation of the classics.

Self-portrait, 1832 (Museum fine arts Lyon)

Louis Janmot was born in Lyon, France to Catholic parents who were deeply religious. The death of his brother (1823) and the death of his sister (1829) left a deep mark on the boy's soul.
Louis Janmot became a student at the Royal College of Lyon, where he met Frederic Ozanam and other followers of his philosophy, Abbé Noirot.
In 1831, Louis Janmot was admitted to the School of Fine Arts in Lyon, and a year later he received the highest award - the Golden Laurel. In 1833, Louis Janmot came to Paris to take painting lessons from Victor Orcel and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Together with other artists of Lyon, he joined the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul. In 1835 he traveled to Rome with Claudius Laverne, Jean-Baptiste Fresne and other students and met Hippolyte Flandrin.

After his return to Lyon in 1836, Louis Janmot would draw the attention of the critics of the Salon of Paris to producing large-scale paintings with religious inspiration, such as The Resurrection of the Son of the Widow Nain (1839) or Christ in Gethsemane (1840).
After 1845, he attracted the interest of Charles Baudelaire for his painting The Flower of the Fields, which allowed him access to the 1846 Salon.

Cecil Kennedy (1905 - 1997) - English painter, master of still life, was born February 4, 1905 in Leyton, in a large Victorian family of artists. Kennedy is one of the most famous representatives of the English modern school.

From 1950 to 1970, Kennedy's paintings were exhibited regularly at the Fine Art Society of London. The artist was twice awarded at the Paris Salon: in 1956 with a silver medal and in 1970 with a gold medal. Among the fans of Cecil Kennedy's work there were many famous and influential people: the Duke of Windsor, Lord Thompson, the Astor family. “When I see the paintings of Cecil Kennedy, I smell the flowers and hear the hum of the bees,” Queen Mary said of the artist’s work.

Cecil Kennedy is by far the finest British flower still life painter of the twentieth century. In his work, he often combined modern hybrid exotic flowers with traditional English flowers and herbs, with plants that were depicted on his canvases by the old masters. He knew a lot about flowers, and his use of white in many of his still lifes reflects 20th-century horticultural trends. Paintings by Cecil Kennedy can be found all over the world - in royal, corporate and private collections.

Kennedy Cecil(February 4, 1905 - 1997) English painter, master of still life, representative naturalism.

Kennedy Born February 4, 1905 in Leyton, in a large Victorian family of artists. Kennedy during the Second World War, while serving in the British army spent in Antwerp. It was then that he began to imitate the Flemish school of Peter Paul Rubens, with his meticulous technique and riot of colors. His acquaintance with the old masters in European museums was combined with a close friendship with contemporary Flemish artists. At the age of 24 Kennedy exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Hibernian Academy, and then at the Royal Academy in London, the Paris Salon, Kennedy also talked to dealers. In 1956 Kennedy was awarded a silver medal and a gold medal in 1970 at the Paris Salon. In their works Kennedy I was looking for ways to convey chromatic shades and a spectrum of different colors, reminiscent of the work Yana van Huysum And Rachelruysch. In compositions of several flowers of the same type of flower, he combined, like a close botanist, the comparison of different specimens of the same species, with the symbolic expression of a humanist, offering a look at mortality and beauty.
Kennedy is one of the most famous representatives of the English modern school.

Still life with flowers.